Yes.
For known products we provide manufacturer support phone numbers, hence ability to make a call from the app.
For adding recipts we need file system/camera access.
If you would like to connect with friends to share reviews/recommendations then contacts.
Hence the long list...
Yes. You are right. We ran into the issue of user adoption for the post-purchase usecase.
So we added the price monitoring as more users wanted prepurchase options but there are lots of players there.
To go one step further, we had created the site https://www.allthingsmine.com and the ios/android app
which basically auto looks up the manual in online manual sites. In addition, it points to youtube videos for the product, provides specs if the product is available in our database.
Also users can also store their purchase receipts, price etc and get notified of price changes and view the trend if the product is sold by retailers such as Amazon, BestBuy, Walmart etc.
Will point to manualslib.com if it is comprehensive.
You could go with something like https://www.cloudfuze.com/
But then you would end up paying 5$ a month. It gives you the freedom to choose the storage provider or multiple of them transparently.
Thanks for your feedback. We started out with automating warranty and added many more features.
Will definitely reorient the message to convey the primary message which is "Manage". "Discover" comes into play once the community of friends are on board.
As part of "Manage", will explain its aspects, namely converging all of the product information at one place.
Thank you for the feedback. We have not approached any of the others yet. Slice has been around for a long time. They are strong on delivery tracking and email based parsing of receipts. Will checkout Warranty Ninja. We were planning to add parsing of receipts, but were worried about email security. Thinking of alternatives to address it.
I am cofounder of AllThingsMine.com
We have built the App and Site for a single place where you can store all the information about the things that you own/wish to own.
It is a single point of access to specifications/warranties/manuals/recalls/reviews/videos of a product. You can also connect to friends to discuss about the products. We have tried to make it as easy as possible to add your product and are also working to make it easy to add from email/online receipts.
We bring in news feed from various sources pertaining to products that you have in your lists. Curated list of popular and top products in
different categories
We welcome feedback as to what other things users would like to see to be able to maintain their items with minimal effort.
Our biggest hurdle is how do we increase adoption.
Ebay's messaging might need to be enhanced to allow real time access.